Abstract

MATTOS, Fernando Augusto M.. Flexibilization of the European labor markets: one most history of failure of the neoliberal model. Inv. Econ [online]. 2005, vol.64, n.252, pp.21-62. ISSN 0185-1667.

The flexibilization of European labor markets, in the last twenty years, did not produce the results promessed by their supporters. This article shows evidences that the flexibilization of European labor markets did not promote a decrease in unemployment rates, but only a deterioration in the Labor conditions, with the increase of precarious forms of jobs and also concentration of Income. The analisys of this historical process of flexibilization of the labor laws in Europe may be taken as a warning to Latin American economists, which should reflect about an alternative to the neoliberal (which, in general, followed the ideas of the Washington Consensus) that were adopted in the majority of the Latin American countries since the eigthies of the last century.

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